Steve Smith described Australia's 'beautiful' victory over Sri Lanka as 'near-flawless'
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00:00It was a really good performance from the outset. I thought the way we started the game, Travis and Usman's partnership.
00:08Travis, the way he came out and put them under pressure immediately and obviously Usman's innings to score his first double hundred was outstanding.
00:16And the way he was able to do it was even more impressive.
00:20You know, playing on the horizontal plane, the vertical plane, using his feet at times, playing deep, defending well.
00:27It was beautiful to watch and I was up the other end for a fair chunk of it and just looked at ease the entire time.
00:35So, yeah, I thought the way we started was great and then obviously we had plenty of partnerships throughout to get to 6.50,
00:43which enabled us two opportunities to bowl them out without having to bat again.
00:48It was a terrific first innings and then the spinners just bowled beautifully in tandem after Mitchell Stark,
00:54who I thought bowled beautifully with the new ball too. So, yeah, it was almost a near flawless performance.